The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1932, Page 4

& THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1932. Daily Alaska Empire JOHN W. TROY - - - EDITOR AND MANA(}EBi Published _every evemng except Sunday by the| EMPIRE_PRINTING COMPANY at Second and Main | Streets, Juneau, Alaska. | Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class | matter. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dellvered by carcler In Juneau, Douglas, Treadwell and Thane for $1.25 per month, = | all, postage paid, at the follow 3 | One yoars In’advence, 313.00; six months, 1o ndvnnoe.i 6.00; one month, in advance, $1.25 I bearibers wiil confer a favor it they will promptly notify the Business Office of any failure or irregularity he delivery of thelr papers. | I enhone for Editorial and Business Offices, 374. | MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS, | The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to| it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. | ALASKA CIRCULATION GUAWANTEED TO BE LARGER | THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PUBLICATION. | | | G AGAINST “NOBLE PERIMENT.” G 0. P | The polling of ninety-seven wet votes by the| Republicans the National House of Represen- tatives, almost one-half of the G. O. P. member- | p, makes it certain that there will be a very| interesting and dry fight at the Republican National Convention in June. That wet vote will add power to determined Republicans to relieve | their party of the odium of sponsorship for the “Noble Experiment.” Dr. Nicholas Murray Bu:ler‘ will draw a strong bow at Chicago in early June. 1‘ The vote in Congress adds plausibility to rumors | that President Hoover wants a moist platform on which to stand during the coming campaign. It ought to make it plain to anyone that no candidate for President will stand a chance to get the large Eastern States if he is committed to a continuation of Volsteadism. i | in | wet The chance scems to be more than even that the anced thinkers in both parties will upp\):‘(‘} Prohibition in both Chicago conventions, and that they will have the most of the delegates with them. It is safe to predict that Prohibition will not be with us more than two years longer. MOUNTING CO OF GOVERNMENT. When increased costs of government are discussed usually the reference is to Federal costs, due of course, to the fact that they are national and are of interest to all States and Territories alike. The growth of Federal costs has been enormous in the | past 15 years, but not more abnormal than those | of indiyidual States. This is made clear in a | cent statement issued by the Bureau of Census cov- | ering financial ‘subjects relating to State govern- ments which in the year 1930 shouldered costs of | government aggregating $2,200,270.059 and had a net indebtedness totaling $1,833427,871 The operation and maintenance of the general departments of the 48 States for the fisal year clos- ing December 30, 1930, or the latest complete fiscal year closing on a date prior thereto cost almost two and three-fourth times per capita what they cost a | decade and a half ago, the total sum being $1,- 390,505,636, or $11.40 per capita. This includes $366,- 322,808 apportionments for education to the minor civil divisions of the States. In 1929 the per capita for operation and maintenance of general depart- ments was $10.78, and in 1917, $4.19. The payments for operation and maintenance of public service en- terprises amounted to $9,559,634; interest on debt, $101,430508; and outlays for permanent improve- ments, $788774,191. The total payments for 1930, therefore, were $2.200,270,059; for 1929, $2,061,016,833; and for 1917, $517,503,220. There was an increase in apportionments for education of $28,811,109 over those for 1 Interest charges also increased $7,293926 over those for 1929. Of the total government-cost payments 60.7 per cent was for the operation and maintenance of the general departments of the State governments; 0.4 per cent was for the operation and maintenance of public service enterprises, such as docks and wharves, canals, warehouses, irrigation projects, etc.; 4.4. per cent was for interest on debt; and 344 per cent represented outlays for permanent improvements, (public buildings, etc.) Of the payments for operation and maintenance of general departments, 40.2 per cent was for educa- tion; 18.1 per cent, for highways; 16.1 per cent, for charities, hospitals, and corrections; 7.9 per cent, for general government; 5.7 per cent, for protection .to person and propert: 54 per cent, for development and. conservation of natural resources; 25 per cent, for health and sanitation; 04 per cent, for recrea- tion; and 39 per cent, for miscellaneous, the latter including pensions to retired State employees, aid to soldiers and sailors, mothers, and to other general clas: The outlay payments for permanent improvements were principally for highways, consituting 805 per cent of the total outlays. The next in importance were the outlay payments for chari hospitals, and corrections, amounting to $63,117. tion, amounting to $40,091,187 The total revenue receipts of the nments of the 48 States for 1930 were $2,243,1 This was $741614819 more than the payments of the year exclusive of the outlay payments for permanent improvements, but $47,159.372 less than the total payments including those for permanent improve- ments. For the years 1926, 1927, and 1928 the States as a whole had a surplus of revenue receipts after meeting all governmental costs including capital outlays for permanent improvements. In 1930 23 States, individually, not only balanced their budgets but had a surplus of revenue receipts after meeting all governmental-cost payments. For one State the payments for operation and maintenance and inter- ‘est exceeded the revenue receipts, Of the 23 States showing an excess of revenue receipts, 20 show a " reduction in their net indebtedness for the year. The total per capita revenue receipts were $18.39 1930; $17.11 in 1929; and $5.14 in 1917 of revenue for 1930. were | was $386,506.952 $399,523,438, motor fuel taxes; $345,186,629, general property taxes; $296,423,525, motor vehicle licenses; $180,794,241, inheritance taxes (collected in 45 States); $96,451,517, special property taxes; and $76,530,014, income taxes (collected in 15 States). Receipts from motor fuel taxes and motor. vehicle _|licenses represented 31 per cent of the total State venues in 1930 and increased 143.3 per cent from to 1930. Receipts from general property taxes representzd 154 per cent of the total State revenues in 1930 and decreased 3.7 per cent from 1925 to 1930. Receipts from inheritance taxes represented 8.1 per cent of the total of State revenues in 1930 and in- creased 1105 per cent from 1925 to 1930. Receipts from special property taxes represented 4.3 per cent of the total State revenues in 1930 and increased 7 per cent from 1925 to 1930. Receipts from income taxes represented 3.4 per cent of State revenues for 1930 and increased 1779 per cent from 1925 to 1930. The net indebtedness (funded or fixed debt less sinking fund assets) continued to increase, and in 1930 was $1,833,427,871 or $15.03 per capita. In 1929 the per capita net debt was $14.04, and in 1917, $4.39. Bonds sold in 1930 were largely for highways. Twenty-eight States effected a decrease in_their indebtedness, but the aggregate increase in the net debt of the States during the year was $143,601,323. For 1930 the assessed valuation of property in the 48 States amounted to $165,727457,376. The amount of general property taxes levied for State purposes The per capita levy was $3.17 for In 1930 1930, $3.06 for 1929, and $1.83 for 1917. ‘Ihers‘ were no general property taxes levied for State purposes in the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Carolina, and California. The aggregate of valuation given includes the assessable valuation in the four States that do not at present levy a general {tax for State purposes. The increase over 1929 in the assessed valuation of property subject to the general property tax was $2,044,324,449 and -the increase in the levy on this valuation was $18,219,650. The per capita figures for 1930 are based on an estimated population for the 48 States, of 121,- 999,000. Every now and then an “anything to stop Roose- velt” authority announces that this or that can- didate for the Presidency is gaining. That may well be true. Almost any support for almost any candi- date against Roosevelt is a recent gain, for they lall started very recently from scratch without any | support to speak of. The Decline of Liberty. (Cincinnati Enquirer.) Apart from economic depression and interna- tional frictions, there has been no more discouraging trend in post-war years than the decline of human |liberty in almost every quarter of the world. Every ’('Dul\ll'}' of course cut short the liberties of the individual in war-time as a means of furthering national efficiency to win battles. The impetus of that movement has not been checked. On the contrary, it seems to have gained momentum. Italy led off with the concept of Fascism, which |has overthrown not only the idea of representative government but also the belief that the individual existed in his own right. . He is today a creature of the State, nothing more. Poland inaugurated an official terrorism to repress insurgent minority nationalities, as did other countries of Eastern Europe Russia’ set up a machine as resourceful and cunning and inhuman as the espionage of the Czars to throttle all non-Communists, and in America we have passed syndicalism and deportation laws to stamp out Communists. Germany, shot through with conflicting aims, has restored to emergency powers which savor strongly or dictatorship, including a cen- sorship stricter by far than that of Bismarck. Spain languished under dictatorial government seven years, and still cannot restore completely under the Republic the full rights of citizens. India is under an iron hand of legal despotism. Cuba and many smaller countries are ruled in large part by |their military police, rather than by law. The exceptions are few and trifling. England, Switzerland, Holland and Scandinavia have few of the earmarks of despotism, and have made few in- |vasions on individual rights. These may survive the era of tension we are passing through. In any event, it seems likely that until the world is re- stored to a wholly new and enduring economic equilibrium, human liberty will remain under a shadow. An Assistant Needs Assistance. (New York Times.) The Assistant Secretary of the Navy went to sea in a bowl—and a very fragile one—in his ad- dress Wednesday evening in the praise of the Presi- dent. He announced a list of “Republican doc- trines” which would be presented to the people next November “under the standard of Herbert Hoover.” One of these doctrines is Republican opposition to the League of Nations, which, according to the veracious Assistant Secretary, would have meant “surrender of our national sovereignty." Against that humiliation the Republican Party contended, and the people stod by it with a majority of more than 7,000,000, Who could have gathered from this that .Mr. Hoover was one of the men who in 1920 spoke with the utmost fervor in favor of joining the League of Nations? He then raised his “standard” alongside |that of Woodrow Wilson. Mr. Jahncke stated that {the truth of his assertions was “within the memory of our youngest citizens.” His own must be a very fallible memory, or else he presumes upon the ignor- ance of his hearers. How does a city that hasn't money enough to ';1'm-m.\h a gal school teacher a new lipstick manage 350,000 for two public riots otherwise as national political conventions?—(Macon, Telegraph.) {Ga.. Hoarders who are putting their money back into culation may be making the pleasant discovery their cash will buy more now than it would when they buried it.—(Boston Globe.) The Police Gazette, which once used to shock 'sm, had to quit. It was far too tame for this day. —(Cincinnati Enquirer.) Berlin is protesting to a beer tax. don't know when they're lucky. like to have no beer Express.) Some people How would they to tax?—(Buffalo Courier- Japanese protestations that they are acting in self-defense remind one of the old sinner who, ar- | | restzd for fishing on Sunday, claimed that the trout were attacking him. —(Boston Globe.) The world is beginning to wonder whether it underestimated Chinamen or overestimated Japanese. —(Washington Post.) The Democratic Ting is getting so full of hats it looks like a checkroom.—(Ohio State Journal) SYNOPSIS: “Two children mar- ried.” So Kitty Brandon's mother thinks at the wedding of Kitty and Garfield Frew. Gar has just finished college and hopes to get a job with his father, director in most of the important con- cerns in Winton. He takes Kitty away from her home in a small +Y town and carries her off to stay | with his family. Kitty is nervous about meeting them, especially Gar’s mother. Her worries in- crease when on the train they meet Marge Crosby, a very soph- isticated member of Gar's crowd at home, who devotes herselfl to Gar and snubs Kitty. Gar, light hearted and easy-going, does not appreciate Marge’s attitude to- ward Kitty’'s disturbed mind. Marge’s smart outfit makes Kitty feel that her own clothes are countryfied. at Gar's home, the butler in- ferms them that his mother will cee them at tea. “Maybe your Mothers' angry,” Kitty says. Chapter 3 “THIS IS YOUR WIFE?” “Oh, that. You dont' know the Mother yet.” “Probably she's running some very important meeting at this very moment. xou're going to be erazy about her. But I don’t like the idea of bringing you up here. T'll by JANE}ABBOTT, When they arrive | swered quickly. “We've always been | she's that kind. Guess there |isnt' anything I could tell her that | | he wouldn't understand. You'll see that, Kit.” His tone put to shame her panic. her concern for the shortcomings |of Bridgewater's best dressmaki {even her dread of sharing Gar. | Downstairs, Carol Frew sat care- | lessly on the arm of a chair watch- {ing her mother direct Pound in the lacing of the tea-table. “A little e to the right, Pound. Did you Sim to make the mushroom sandwiches.” Pound had told Sim. The sand- wiches were on the silver plate, the nons cut to a delicate thinness, h slice neatly pierced with C s. ‘There was candied ginger, land little cakes scarcely bigger than thimbles. Mushroom sandwiches, Dbecause Gar liked them magnificent ges- turz of forgiveness! Carol smiled. Her smile was not a pleasant one and spread no further than the | muscles of her lips. The two, mother |and daughter, were much alike in feature, smooth brown hair, gray eygs, hedvy lidded, high-bridged ino.. even contour of cheek and chin, and thin, finely curved lips. But Carol’s face lacked the gra- | ciousness that touched the older {womar with beauty; it was | marked rather with discontent and Mrs. Frew gently disengaged herself ffom Gar's arms. “And this Is—your wife?” she asked. talk that over with Mother—" Kitty roused to look about her, a sudden tenderness welling in® hér eyes “This is your own room, Gar? Your little-boy's room?” He had to kiss her for the tone in her voice. “Well, I moved up here after I graduated from a nurse but I don't think you'll find any toys about.” He surveyed his possessions proudly, tennis rackets, foils, boxing gloves, a varied collec- tion of trophies, innumerable fram- ed photographs of college groups, girls, dogs, horses, speed boats. Pound came in then, coughing discreetly. Under Gar's direction he deposited the bags and retreated. “Gar, don't ask your mother to change us. This—this is nice.” Her tone was pleasing, her eyes pleaded. She could not explain that she felt more secure here in this room that was Gar's, more his, because the fear of sharing him was too new- born a thing witliin her to voice it. “Oh. well, just as you say, sweet.” “It'll only be for a little while, Gar.” She walked about the room, looking at its photographs. Over his desk hung a framed picture of Mar- gery Crosby in beautiful pose. Kitty regarded it, smiling unconcernedly. “Here, I'll open your bag,” Gar said. “You must doll up to meet the mother, Kit.” At that her apprehension took swift hold of her again. The trous- seau she had assembled in that to~' short week of preparation contained only two of what Bridgewater call- ed “dress-up“ dresses, a soft blue flowered crepe and a more practi- cal rust-colored silk. And while she was weighing her choice she thought of Gar's mother, “Gar, you Ilove your mother very, very much, don't you?" He did not notice the soberness of her voice. “Devoted,” he an- restlessness, furtive suspicion. The room in which they sat was | bedutifully appointed. The walls weré of a cool buff paneled with murals of a Persian motif, the :in- dows were high and wide and hung with heavy amber satin that seemed, today, to catch and hold the gold of the afternoon sunlight; the same high note of color was re- peated in the deficate fabric of the chairs and divan, and reflected in the prisms of the crystal can- delabra around the walls, “Chivers is lecturing today,” Carol said significantly. She wanted her/mother to know that she had considered going to hear Chivers read from his own verse, in spite of the fact that Gar was coming home with a bride; she wanted hre mother to know, too, that she was not missing it out of any curiosity | over Kitty, for as far as she was coneerned she didn't care what Kifty was like any more than to hope fervently that she was quite a mess, She was staying to watch her mother's technique. When Gar’s letter had come tell- ing them briefly that he was mar- ried Carol had exulted. Now the precious boy had done something ! his mother could not gloss over. She had looked for tears on her mother’s part, anger, denunciation. But if Mrs, Frew shed any tears she had shed them in secret and her smiling acceptance of the situ- ation had held not even a hint or resignation. . Carol had told her- self that her mother was too clever to show her hand yet she'd waten for the first move. And she'd thought her mother might make it this afternoon. But when her mothers’ absorp- tion in the arrangement of the tea things betrayed that she was not even hearing what Carol said and therefore could not be told, even GETTING ALONG The sure way to get to save some money ALL the time. ‘It isn’t necessary to make large deposits, as small and frequent -additions to your account will make your bank balance grow amazingly fast. We pay four per cent on savings accounts compounded B. M. Behrends Bank OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA - along in this world is twice a year through the most subtle insinuation why she was remaining, Carol shut her lips in a thin line, half-smile, half-sneer. When Gar and Kitty came in Mrs. Frew rose and went to meet Gar, her hands outstretched. “My dear boy!” She was as tall as Gar She took his head in her hands and kissed him. And Gar embraced her, boyishly, a little roughly, inar- ticulate for the moment in his rush of affection. They might have been meeting alone in the room for any awareness on their part of Kitty or Carol. p Mrs. Frew disengaged herself from Gar's arms, smiling, one hand holding his. “And this is—your wif¢?” Her faint hesitation indi cated that at the moment hitty's name had escaped her. 6Mrs. Frew's thrusts are veiled but she makes a subtle attack on Kitty tomorrow. - — TO OUR CUSTOMERS Those desiring credit at our store can secure a May 10th dating for merchandise purchased this month —adv. 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